What do we lose when a language stops being spoken? What cultural knowledge embedded in the language vanishes forever?

This book explores indigenous systems of counting, time-telling, telling directions, categorizing species, and many other kinds of indigenous knowledge, and how these are lost when indigenous languages go dormant.

It’s one of my all-time favorite pop linguistics books—I recommend it every chance I get.

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